CROSSWORD
Use the grid with the cryptic or the easy clues, but beware: The answers are different.
EASY CLUES
ACROSS
1 Defeats (5) 6 Takes note (5) 9 European
country (7) 10 Unadorned (5) 11 Sewer (5) 12 Guest house
(5)
13 Bereaved
husband (7) 15 Encountered
(3)
17 Dry (4) 18 Stitch (6) 19 Talons (5) 20 Disintegrates
(6)
22 Yawn (4) 24 Groove (3) 25 Small antelope
(7)
26 Swagger (5) 27 Bedtime drink
(5)
28 Restrict (5) 29 Task (7) 30 Verdant (5) 31 Broaden (5)
DOWN
2 Cream cake
(6)
3 Camera stand
(6)
4 Child (3) 5 Estate (5) 6 Ugly (7) 7 Nobleman (4) 8 Chauffeur (6) 12 Cures (5) 13 Adam’s ale (5) 14 Piece of turf
(5)
15 Wall painting
(5)
16 Tent (5) 18 Perspire (5) 19 Sure (7) 21 Hearsay (6) 22 Star sign (6) 23 Flatfish (6) 25 Estimate (5) 26 Portion (4) 28 Short (3)
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Hangs around the waist, loosely (5) 6 Deem a sober
type (5) 9 Calculate how to keep fit (4,3)
10 Does it house the Citizens’ Advice Bureau? (5)
11 Ointment you can figure to get in a sale? (5)
12 A number can be hot stuff (5)
13 Flier associable with Chekhov (7)
15 She puts us back right on the map (3) 17 The maid’s less than mannerly (4)
18 So cops are upset by stories (6)
19 Stick to the
glass (5) 20 Ancient citizen it’s hard work to be like (6) 22 A bit of a nasty
eye (4)
24 It’s even poetic in its brevity (3) 25 Playing for England, he obviously knows how to cut (7)
26 A Caledonian, royal on occasion (5) 27 One of a pair taken in hand for rowing (5)
28 Black, with a reversible metallic piece (5)
29 Wherein you can eat posh? (7)
30 May look ducky, but it’s dangerous! (5)
31 Cry of pain, being nastily set about at school (5)
DOWN
2 Become aware of being away in Scotland, you know (6)
3 To get irrational
about success can mean pain (6)
4 Masculine issue
(3)
5 Ability of a runner to get £50 (5)
6 In fairness, it’s only hard water (7)
7 The state a hut may be in (4)
8 Cease resistance and donate more (4,2)
12 But you can get dirty as you do so (5)
13 Cooked us tea?
(5)
14 The chap a girl comes round to (5)
15 Wildly shout a direction
(5) 16 Sheer chaos in a Surrey town (5)
18 A “way out”
drink? (5) 19 Where Scots have to pay out for a piece of land (7)
21 Make safe and unusually secure (6) 22 Writing to arrange a trip for some scouts (6)
23 Being cowardly, utter a loud cry of pain (6) 25 Increase production of boots (5) 26 Viola’s singing
voice (4) 28 Because it’s said to be a sort of lettuce (3)